CLIMATE CHANGE IS REAL

      THE CHANGE IN CLIMATE IS REAL

“Clean air, water, and a livable climate are inalienable human rights. And solving this crisis is not a question of politics it is a question of our own survival.”

 LEONARDO DICAPRIO

U.N. Messenger of Peace for the Climate

Climate change is coming much much faster. We have seen such an extraordinarily extreme weather patterns. If u consider in this vast universe, our planet earth is just a small boat. If this boat is sinking then we are all sinking with it together.

We live in a world of an imminent threat which we created ourselves. We cannot control Nature, yet we have been disturbing its balance for centuries in the name of advancements. 

Climate change is one real threat that is happening, in fact growing exponentially as we breathe. Climate change is a slow phenomenon that causes an abnormal change in the Climate and Weather patterns, which is the greatest threat to a sustainable future. 

Climate Change is beyond our control

The Climate change started way before a century, but the difference now is we are knowingly doing this. 

It's just on a much larger scale. If we are going to fight climate change effectively, we have to start by acknowledging that most of our economy is based on fossil fuels. Fossil fuels are coal, oil, and natural gas.

Oil powers most of the transportation sector, coal and natural gas power most of the electricity. 

Now, in the first couple decades of the twenty-first century, in order to sustain our dependence on fossil fuels, we're going to very risky, very extreme new sources. 

You see machines in things like mountain top removal for coal, fracking for natural gas, offshore drilling for oil, and the tar sands, which is the most devastating form of producing fossil fuels. 

They take away massive forests, the water in the streams and rivers is poisoned. It has severe impacts on the wildlife, on native communities, and it requires a huge amount of energy simply to get it to our fuel tanks. 

There is no such thing as clean fossil fuel.

Fossil Fuel Extraction methods

All our modes of transportation, boats, trains, planes, cars, the way we produce our food, the way we build our cities, almost everything we do releases carbon dioxide, CO2, and that leads to climate change. 

The polar ice caps will melt, the seas will start to rise, there will be more dangerous weather patterns, floods, droughts, wildfires. 

This may sound like some nightmarish science fiction film. Except everything is real and it's happening right now.

Leonardo Dicaprio, U.N Messenger of Peace for Climate has made a Trip in the year 2016 to various countries to encounter how far we have damaged our Planet.

The northern tip of Baffin Island, one of the hundreds of islands in the High Canadian Arctic.

Effect of Climate Change on Northern Tip of Baffin Island 

Much faster than before 2040, we will be able to sail over the North Pole. There's going to be no sea ice left in the Arctic Ocean.

We are burning so many fossil fuels that the ice is melting. The Arctic is like the air conditioning for the Northern Hemisphere. 

If it goes away, that's going to change currents, that's going to change weather patterns, that's going to make floods and droughts more catastrophic. 

It's the most dramatic transformation of a large environment ever.

There are about 10,000 to 12,000 narwhals in this region. The numbers are stable here, in other regions are declining. I personally do not want to be on a planet without these animals.

Greenland

Effect of Climate Change in Greenland

If climate stays at this temperature that it's been in the last decade, Greenland is,  going away. This meltwater is making its way to the sea. 

If that's not balanced by snowfall then the ice sheet gets smaller and sea level rises. 30 Feet is the thickness of ice that has melted throughout all of lower Greenland in the past 5 years. 

That's hundreds of cubic kilometres of ice that's now no longer stored on land. It's gone into the sea over here. 

Miami, New Orleans, Boston, and Long Beach, California may be doomed to fall victim to ever-rising sea levels. 

South Florida as we know it could be washed away by risings seas. When you look at places that are the most susceptible to sea level rise, especially in the United States, Florida is the key one.

One sort of picture of what the world may look like if we do not take action.

To begin with, for the past twelve thousand years, temperatures are almost miraculously stable. 

In fact, average temperatures vary within only plus minus one degrees Celsius during this entire period. This perfect planet with this perfect atmosphere. 

Yeah. Exactly. And so, let us then move upwards in temperature. 

Deforestation for Coal Mining 

Where are we right now? Well, today we're approaching one degree Celsius. Already it just, 0.85 degrees, we're seeing faster than predicted impacts. 

This storm is so big, so vast, 60 million Americans will feel its power. We're in a historic drought. The world's coral reefs begin to collapse even before two degrees. 

And we're predicted to hit 1.5, to 2 degrees. So, that's already probably gonna happen.  At 3, 4 degrees, we will have heat waves which make many regions in the world not livable any longer. 

Agriculture will be collapsing around the equator. That would take us beyond being able to responsibly feed humanity.

Effects of Climate Change

What makes scientists so nervous is that we can reach a point where earth takes over and starts reinforcing warming. This is what we call tipping points, and the most obvious one is Greenland. 

Greenland, for the first time, is melting on its entire surface to a point where, instead of being a white surface, becomes a dark surface, and suddenly instead of becoming cooler, becomes a self-heater. 

Because, because of the fact the ice can no longer reflect back because of the color change of the ice. 

Suddenly, all these feedbacks start kicking in. Methane stuck under frozen permafrost thaws to a point where it starts getting released. And that, in turn, warms the planet even more, which releases more methane. 

What are you going to do about Climate Change?

We have achieved the Paris Agreement. More countries have come together here to sign this agreement today than for any other cause in the history of humankind, and that is the reason for hope. 

But unfortunately, the evidence shows us that it will not be enough. A massive change is required right now. 

One that leads to a new collective consciousness.  New collective evolution of the human race, inspired and enabled by a sense of urgency from all of you. 

We can congratulate each other today, but it will mean absolutely nothing if you return to your countries and fail to push beyond the promises of this historic agreement. 

After 21 years of debates and conferences, it is time to declare no more talk, no more excuses, no more ten-year studies, no more allowing the fossil fuel companies to manipulate and dictate the science and policies that affect our future. 

The world is now watching. You'll either be lauded by future generations or vilified by them. You are the last best hope of Earth. We ask you to protect it, or we and all living things we cherish will be history.


Also Read:

1. CLIMATE CHANGE AND OCEANS
2. Things you need to know about climate change, Scientists and Human activities
3. What is the difference between Climate Change and Global Warming

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